Venue: Galaxy Highland (Press Screening)
Cheap, amateur, snake oil flim-flamery masquerading as a horror film. You can read my bile-spitting review at Horror's Not Dead. Be forewarned, I was not kind.
Rating: 0/10 Atkins
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Sunday, January 22, 2012
The Devil Inside (2012)
1st View
Venue: Galaxy Highland (Press Screening)
Cheap, amateur, snake oil flim-flamery masquerading as a horror film. You can read my bile-spitting review at Horror's Not Dead. Be forewarned, I was not kind.
Rating: 0/10 Atkins
Venue: Galaxy Highland (Press Screening)
Cheap, amateur, snake oil flim-flamery masquerading as a horror film. You can read my bile-spitting review at Horror's Not Dead. Be forewarned, I was not kind.
Rating: 0/10 Atkins
Sunday, January 1, 2012
The Adventures of Tintin (2011)
1st View
Venue: Galaxy Highlands (Press Screenings)
Thoroughly entertaining throwing to Spielberg's classic adventure films made all the more thrilling by the fact that the mo-cap animation means he is unburdened by the laws of physics. My pic for best animated film of the year.
Rating: 8/10 Atkins
Venue: Galaxy Highlands (Press Screenings)
Thoroughly entertaining throwing to Spielberg's classic adventure films made all the more thrilling by the fact that the mo-cap animation means he is unburdened by the laws of physics. My pic for best animated film of the year.
Rating: 8/10 Atkins
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)
1st View
Venue: Galaxy Highland (Press Screening)
Not as good as the first, though it had the potential to surpass it. Jared Harris' Moriarty is outstanding and the back-and-forth between he and Downey Jr is perfect. Unfortuantely, this bloated sequel can't decide if its an action romp or an old school Sherlock story.
Rating: 5/10 Atkins
Venue: Galaxy Highland (Press Screening)
Not as good as the first, though it had the potential to surpass it. Jared Harris' Moriarty is outstanding and the back-and-forth between he and Downey Jr is perfect. Unfortuantely, this bloated sequel can't decide if its an action romp or an old school Sherlock story.
Rating: 5/10 Atkins
Sunday, November 27, 2011
The Muppets (2011)
1st View
Venue: Galaxy Highland (Press Screening)
Start the music and light the lights, Kermit and the gang are back! Here is my review of the long-anticipated return of The Muppets in...THE MUPPETS!
Venue: Galaxy Highland (Press Screening)
Start the music and light the lights, Kermit and the gang are back! Here is my review of the long-anticipated return of The Muppets in...THE MUPPETS!
Saturday, November 26, 2011
J. Edgar (2011)
1st View
Venue: Galaxy Highland (Press Screening)
Uneven, unfocused, and overall flat, J. Edgar is one of the most disappointing films of the year. Dicaprio's accent and makeup are as laughable as his cloying performance. Clint Eastwood has become a peddler of mediocrity who is more concerned with getting a film released in time for awards season every year than crafting anything of quality.
Rating: 3/10 Atkins
Venue: Galaxy Highland (Press Screening)
Uneven, unfocused, and overall flat, J. Edgar is one of the most disappointing films of the year. Dicaprio's accent and makeup are as laughable as his cloying performance. Clint Eastwood has become a peddler of mediocrity who is more concerned with getting a film released in time for awards season every year than crafting anything of quality.
Rating: 3/10 Atkins
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas (2011)
1st View
Venue: Galaxy Highland (Press Screening)
I must say I am a fan of the first H&K film. It's a weird infusion of Cheech and Chong and the Crosby/Hope "on the road" movies. While I haven't seen the second film, since seeing the first I have become a huge fan of How I Met Your Mother starring, among others, the incomparable Neil Patrick Harris. I was therefore doubly excited about A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas and the return of the storied NPH from the H&K universe. He definitely did not disappoint. The film was as raunchy and low-brow as you'd expect, and yet simultaneously smarter than you'd think. Also, I now desperately want a WaffleBot.
Rating: 7/10 Atkins
Venue: Galaxy Highland (Press Screening)
I must say I am a fan of the first H&K film. It's a weird infusion of Cheech and Chong and the Crosby/Hope "on the road" movies. While I haven't seen the second film, since seeing the first I have become a huge fan of How I Met Your Mother starring, among others, the incomparable Neil Patrick Harris. I was therefore doubly excited about A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas and the return of the storied NPH from the H&K universe. He definitely did not disappoint. The film was as raunchy and low-brow as you'd expect, and yet simultaneously smarter than you'd think. Also, I now desperately want a WaffleBot.
Rating: 7/10 Atkins
Saturday, October 15, 2011
The Thing (2011)
1st View
Venue: Galaxy Highland (Press Screening)
Pitiful, visionless rehashing of Carpenter's classic with absolutely no understanding of what really made it work. Don't waste your time.
Rating: 3/10 Atkins
Venue: Galaxy Highland (Press Screening)
Pitiful, visionless rehashing of Carpenter's classic with absolutely no understanding of what really made it work. Don't waste your time.
Rating: 3/10 Atkins
Saturday, June 25, 2011
Super 8 (2011)
1st View
Venue: Galaxy Highland (Press Screening) (Summer 2011)
This was my most anticipated film of the summer, and given the magnitude of this particular summer that's saying something. I loved Super 8. I was enraptured by the combination of J.J. Abrams' flair for big sci-fi and the reliance on a deep Amblin reference well. Since seeing it, I've been surprised to find how divisive the reaction has been among my colleagues. I have to admit I fully understand the complaints I'm hearing, but for me Super 8 was the perfect summer movie and struck every appropriate chord with me.
Rating: 8/10 Atkins
Venue: Galaxy Highland (Press Screening) (Summer 2011)
This was my most anticipated film of the summer, and given the magnitude of this particular summer that's saying something. I loved Super 8. I was enraptured by the combination of J.J. Abrams' flair for big sci-fi and the reliance on a deep Amblin reference well. Since seeing it, I've been surprised to find how divisive the reaction has been among my colleagues. I have to admit I fully understand the complaints I'm hearing, but for me Super 8 was the perfect summer movie and struck every appropriate chord with me.
Rating: 8/10 Atkins
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Fast Five (2011)
1st View
Format: D-Box
Venue: Galaxy Highland
I wish I liked this movie, I desperately wanted to like this movie. But the script is so bad, so lazy and incompetent that I could not divorce myself from its ineptitude in order to be lost in the sheer entertainment value; as is my wont. But I will say that seeing it in D-Box was sublime. Oh, and the Rock was so off-the-wall insane as to remind me of a giant, neckless Bo Svenson.
Rating: 3/10 Atkins
Format: D-Box
Venue: Galaxy Highland
I wish I liked this movie, I desperately wanted to like this movie. But the script is so bad, so lazy and incompetent that I could not divorce myself from its ineptitude in order to be lost in the sheer entertainment value; as is my wont. But I will say that seeing it in D-Box was sublime. Oh, and the Rock was so off-the-wall insane as to remind me of a giant, neckless Bo Svenson.
Rating: 3/10 Atkins
Thor (2011)
1st View
Venue: Galaxy Highland (Press Screening)
First big movie of the summer, at least for me. Enjoyed 90% of the film and appreciated that it was the first to seamlessly incorporate so many appendages of the Marvel universe; no longer a gimmick that all the Avengers exist in the same reality. I like the character-centric superhero film angle, but felt it was a bit forced. Overall, a success I feel.
Rating: 7/10 Atkins
Venue: Galaxy Highland (Press Screening)
First big movie of the summer, at least for me. Enjoyed 90% of the film and appreciated that it was the first to seamlessly incorporate so many appendages of the Marvel universe; no longer a gimmick that all the Avengers exist in the same reality. I like the character-centric superhero film angle, but felt it was a bit forced. Overall, a success I feel.
Rating: 7/10 Atkins
Saturday, January 29, 2011
The Mechanic (2011)
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